ABSTRACT
Early Late Paleolithic backed-blade and burin industry of Cyrenaica (Libya), defined at Haua Fteah and Hagfet ed-Dabba (Cave of the Hyena) by C.B.M. McBurney. The first appearance of the industry at ca. 40–32 Ka, sometimes compared with the Emiran at Abu Halka, is marked by chamfered blades, endscrapers, and a large component of backed blades. This is followed at Haua Fteah by a reappearance of Levalloiso-Mousterian and then by a second Dabban phase with more burins and endscrapers but no chamfered blades. The Dabban lasted until ca. 14 Ka, when it was replaced by an eastern Oranian industry with backed bladelets and microblade cores.
